Missive #418

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025

The Horseclans are on the move again. For the Undying High Lord Milo Moray is ready for the next step in his master plan to re-unite all the tribes which onceThis is the fifth book in a long series and was better than some of those that I read previously. That is a good thing. Perhaps it is just me rather than the author. Maybe I have finally managed to get past all the strange character and place names. formed the United States… Before the Confederation forces lie the savage tribes of the Armehnee mountains. But a more dangerous enemy is waiting: the Witchmen – scientists from the ancient times who have achieved immortality by stealing the living bodies of men while destroying their soles – have been at work in the mountains. And the Horseclans are riding into danger that could destroy the end of the Confederation! — Book promo @ Amazon

This is a continuation of health comments. That ANS charge that my watch and Polar Flow provide is made up of three components; a four hour average heart rate, heart rate variability and breathing rate. The ‘science’ has found that there is a correlation between the heart rate variability (HRV) as well as the heart rate so I have been watching it as well. It is certainly variable; it jumps all over the place but does generally falls in a range of ±40ms with the baseline 28 day average at the center of that range.

So with that new measure, my previous measure of lowest sleeping heart rate and the ANS change average heart rate I have been monitoring my health. I somewhat arbitrarily set 44bpm for my lowest sleeping heart rate as a trigger point, 4bpm over the average ANS baseline as another one and HRV below it’s current range.

On Saturday 28 December the HRV measure was below the current range but the other two HR measures were not at trigger points so I did nothing. On 29 December both my sleeping HR and the ANS measure were both triggered. I took a 800mg ibuprofen that morning when I saw this and then took another one before going to bed. On the 30th everything was being reported as back in its normal (for me) range so no more ibuprofen and a usual walking schedule.

There are many reasons why those measures may have been what they were other than inflammation. However, since the ibuprofen is known to reduce inflammation and everything returned to normal I’ll continue to believe that is what was going on and will repeat that treatment under similar conditions. Time will tell if I have discovered something or would have been just a well off doing nothing or taking a placebo.